ONCHI, Koshiro. Umi No Dowa. Unpaginated, 8 ff., illustrated with 6 polychrome woodcuts. Small 4to, 285 x 215 mm., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, in a new cloth box. Tokyo: Hanga-So, Showa 9 [1934].
A superb example of Onchi's skill as a bookmaker, which earn a place among the twentieth century's.....
Item nr. 169967
Price: $8,500.00
GROSZ, George. Ecce Homo. With 100 plates of which 16 are in colour. Folio, 347 x 250 mm., bound in the original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Berlin: Malik Verlag, 1923.
An unusually fine copy of this classic work, rarely found thus.
A brilliant collection of Grosz's savage caricatures.....
Item nr. 169283
Price: $6,500.00
BRUSSELS, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE. Statistique de la Belgique: Agriculture: Recensement Général de 1895: publié pare le Ministre de l'Agriculture: Atlas. 34 Plates. Large folio, 485 x 360 mm., in publisher's linen-backed cloth portfolio. Brussels: Ministre de l'Agriculture, 1899.
A splendid example of the works published by the French statistical bureau very.....
Item nr. 169861
Price: $2,250.00
WOMEN. Soviet Women. [50] ff., illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, 250 x 190 mm., bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography, to the intricate typographical layout.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
BOOM, Irma. Presént. By Niklas Maak. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, preserved in the original neon green shrink wrap all in a new grey cloth folding box with a yellow label. Paris: Renault, 2016
Irma Boom succeeded in following up her magnificent 1996 Think Book with another tour de force.....
Item nr. 169998
Price: $3,500.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. 390 x 100 mm. when folded, preserved in the original envelope. Milano: Giorgio Lucini, 1971. WITH:
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. Small yellow printed portfolio containing a black square base and a foldable black sculpture, 150 x 150 mm. when folded. [Lugo]: Exit Edizioni, 1991.
These magical.....
Item nr. 169981
Price: $3,500.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties. Laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo, 145 x 135 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos.
The Athens Charter.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00
PICASSO, Pablo with André VILLERS. Diurnes. Decoupages et Photographies. By Jacques Prévert. 18 pages text accompanied by 30 loose-leaf collotypes. Folio, in original wrappers in publisher's box with decorative colour design by Picasso. Paris: Berggruen, 1962.
"Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted.....
Item nr. 169401
Price: $7,500.00
MAZZOCCHI-ALEMANNI, Nallo. La colonizzazione del latifondo Siciliano: primo anno, documenti, fotografici, leggi e decreti. xix, [115], 31, 40 pp., chiefly illustrated. Large 8vo, 265 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers and photographic dust jacket, in a new cloth box. [Sicily], Ministero dell'Agricoltura E delle Foreste, 1940.
A fine copy of.....
Item nr. 169120
Price: $3,500.00
EDEL, Nico. Una visita a Cinzano. 44 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 320 x 265 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix]: N.d., [1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
KLEIN, Yves. Dimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour. 4 page 'newspaper', illustrated throughout. 558 x 762 mm. when flat, housed in a custom clamshell box. [Paris, France]: [Yves Klein], November 27, 1960.
Yves Klein published this journal upon the occasion of the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris where it was displayed.....
Item nr. 170492
Price: $5,000.00
HELLE, Andre. La Boîte à Joujoux, texte et dessins de André Hellé. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Paris: A. Tolmer, 1928.
A delightful and rare version of Helle's story, which had originally been published in 1919 as a collaboration between Helle and the composer Claude Debussy.....
Item nr. 171060
Price: $2,500.00
DAVIS, Alexander Jackson. Rural Residences, etc. Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm Houses, Villas, and Village Churches... Unpaginated. Content includes: Title page, advertising leaf, [16] pp. of "Specification of the Material and Work Required for Building a Dwelling House." Illustrated with 11 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 1.....
Item nr. 170506
Price: $25,000.00
GUNDRY, John. Specimens of Penmanship from Gundry's Business College Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. Comprises 22 full page calligraphic designs in black, white and metallic inks on bright blue [13], black [7] and white [2] grounds, one of which incorporates an albumen portrait of Gundry; 41 smaller designs arranged on three sheets;.....
Item nr. 170502
Price: $35,000.00
ROUGET DE LISLE, A. Chromagraphie. Four parts in one volume. 8; 8; 16; 12, 8 pp. Illustrated with four wood-engraved vignettes, 10 folding hand-coloured lithographed plates showing over 100 pairs of colour arrangements numbered figs. 1-74; three engraved folding diagrams of weaving designs by Durau fils; one plate of weaving.....
Item nr. 170387
Price: $12,500.00
ADAMS, Rudolph. Die Farben-Harmonie in ihrer Anwendung auf die Damentoilette. xii, 322, 4 pp. Illustrated with 3 lithographic plates of which two are chromolithographs. 8vo., 213 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's mint green illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1862.
First Edition of this German.....
Item nr. 170382
Price: $3,500.00
ADAM, Victor. Les Synonymes en Action. Contents include; hand-coloured lithographed title and twenty-four hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic, (W, X & Y on one plate). Folio, 337 x 250 mm, bound in publisher's blind stamped red cloth over boards, front cover decorated and lettered in gilt, expertly rebacked.....
Item nr. 170270
Price: $8,500.00
ACCOLTI, Pietro. Lo Inganno de gl'occhi, prospettiva pratica. Trattato in acconcio della pittura. [12], 152, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout, woodcut diagrams, illustrations. Folio, 303 x 217 mm, bound in contemporary mottled calf. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625.
First Edition of the practical manual of perspective, of special interst to painters. Contains the.....
Item nr. 170104
Price: $5,000.00
VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-backed folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926.
First Edition, one.....
Item nr. 169584
Price: $7,500.00
Calder, Alexander. CALDER: An Autobiography with Pictures. 285 pp., profusely illus., 4to, 252 x 201 mm., wraps, in a new cloth folding box. New York, Beacon Press, 1969.
A unique copy of Calder's autobiography embellished with a self-portrait drawing by Calder on the title page.
Item nr. 170999
Price: $3,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp., illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to, 255 x 195 mm., bound in publisher's paper with coloured silk threads over boards, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new half morocco folding.....
Item nr. 170973
Price: $25,000.00
FONTAINE, Jean de la. Selected Fables. Illustrated by ALEXANDER CALDER. 88 pp. text, including numerous line drawings. Folio, 350 x 224 mm., cloth, in a new purple half morocco folding box. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948.
This is the trade edition of Calder's illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables embellished with a......
Item nr. 9872
Price: $7,500.00